Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 516

The twenty-eighth chapter of immoral and smoky bad idea

The Cijian Tang army camp is like a flat boat in the vast ocean at this time, and it may capsize at any time.Wang Shichong mobilized almost all the troops he could mobilize and surrounded the Cijian camp. Although it was impossible for an army of more than [-] to completely surround the Cijian camp, he concentrated his superior forces to attack the Cijian west camp. It's still easy to do.

High in the west and low in the east is the general topography of China, and Cijian is no exception.

Tens of thousands of Zheng army soldiers approached outside the Tang army camp with torches in hand. Although they did not launch an attack, such a large number and such tactics made Li Shimin and Changsun Shunde dare not neglect, let alone take it lightly. Go to support Dongdaying - not thousands of torches appeared there, but nearly [-] torches!

Wang Shichong took full advantage of his strength and invested [-] to [-] troops at the same time in the four directions of Cijian Daying Camp. Since he did not officially launch an attack, Li Shimin could not guess where Wang Shichong's real main attack direction was.In fact, the generals and soldiers of the Zheng Army who appeared outside the Tang Army's camp this time were not the elite troops of the Zheng Army, but the trilogy of Yang Qing and Tian Zan. To take the initiative to attack, you can only shrink your troops and stick to the camp.

The night was as dark as ink, and at a glance, it was full of torches and human heads. Outside the Tang Army camp, many Zheng Army soldiers had rushed to the place where the Tang Army camp was two arrows away. At this time, the Zheng Army soldiers were as dense as ants. Slowly assemble the trebuchets. It is roughly estimated that there are no less than a thousand trebuchets being assembled outside the Cijian camp at this time. Once these thousands of trebuchets are assembled, they will definitely cause fatal damage to the Tang army camp. sex blow.

"Are the troops deployed by Zheng Jun in the West Day Camp, South Day Camp, and East Day Camp an elite or a pseudo-elite?" Li Shimin said with a solemn expression on his face, "There are so many stone cannons, it won't Do you want to build fake stone cannons to attract me to attack?"

After all, stone cannons are very deadly weapons for the side that sticks to the camp.No matter how strong the camp was, it couldn't withstand the heavy bombardment of four to five hundred catties of stone bullets. Even a stone bomb of more than one hundred catties, under the action of huge inertial kinetic energy, was enough to easily knock down the camp wall.Li Shimin had guessed that the Zheng Army soldiers sent by Wang Shichong to block the West Daying, East Daying and South Daying Camps were just suspicious soldiers, but in case this guess was not accurate, in fact, the other party was also a strong enough army outside his own camp. If the troops in the city rushed forward as soon as Tang Jun relaxed, that would be dangerous.

The countless torches were like chains, locking the actions of Li Shimin and Changsun Shunde.

Changsun Shunde shook his head and said, "Besides the big camp, Zheng Jun is assembling not so many stone cannons. The wet wood just cut down can be used to make ladders or siege vehicles, but it is not enough to make stone cannons." impossible!"

Although the stone cannon has a simple structure and is easy to manufacture, it has certain limitations. The most important part is the arm. The wet wood is too heavy and the counterweight is unreasonable, so the arm cannot reach the higher level. The velocity required to cast projectiles efficiently.Therefore, when building a trebuchet, a heavy lever arm made of hard solid wood is of course not as light and efficient as a lever arm made of wood, animal tendon and animal skin.The former is necessarily slower in throwing stones, while the latter is quicker and more elastic in comparison.This is like building a ship. The most suitable arm needs to be made of shaded wood. If it is in the city, the shaded wood used to build house beams or load-bearing columns can be used to make trebuchets.

However, the closest city to Cijian is Xin'an, but there is no such reserve wood in Xin'an city.So he vowed: "More than 1000 trebuchets require at least 1000 shade-dried arms. Where did Wang Shichong get so much wood to serve as arms?"

Li Shimin showed a pensive look, but in fact he also considered this issue.However, there are some things that cannot be faked. These catapults that are gradually taking shape can be assembled in half an hour at most, and it will be clear at a glance whether they are true or false.If it was just fake trebuchets, as long as Li Shimin did not come out of the camp to fight back, his efforts, Wang Shichong, would be in vain. For an uncertain factor, it would be too expensive to make so many fake trebuchets.

"Not good..." Cheng Zhijie said with a wry smile: "His Royal Highness, the trebuchet built by Wang Shichong is probably real!"

Changsun Shunde asked back: "Where does Wang Shichong have so many shade-dried wood?"

Cheng Zhijie said: "Although Xin'an City is not big, there must be tens of thousands of houses!"

Li Shimin's face changed and he quickly ordered: "Quick, prepare the wet soil, and prepare for the bombardment of the stone cannon!"

The biggest damage of the trebuchet is the kinetic energy generated by the bouncing kinetic energy of the stone bullet.The ancient people were very smart and had long thought of a way to deal with trebuchets, that is to use wet soil or sand to quickly reduce the kinetic energy of the stone bombs, thereby increasing and reducing the lethality of the stone bombs.

Time passed slowly, and under Li Shimin's order, the soldiers of the Tang army frantically dug soil in the camp, digging out large pits in front of and behind the camp wall.These big pits are actually used to consume the kinetic energy of the stone bullets. As long as there is no kinetic energy of the stone bullets, the lethality of the stone bullets can be well weakened.

What puzzled Li Shimin was that after the general Zheng Jun assembled the trebuchet, he did not immediately adjust the launch angle, but put the stone on the fire and burned it. Because the distance was too far, Li Shimin could not see clearly. The trebuchet built at that time was also different from the ordinary trebuchet.

In the past, stone bullets were loaded on the arm with leather pockets made of animal leather, but Zheng Jun's trebuchets at this time did not use leather pockets, but steel baskets.

The red-hot stone bullets were put into those iron baskets with iron clips by Zheng Jun's soldiers.

Seeing this scene, Li Shimin's face changed greatly in fright, and he quickly ordered: "Quick, spread out!"

Almost at the same time, the battle drums of the Zheng army also sounded "dong dong". In the Zheng army formation outside the Tang army camp in Cijian, more than a thousand trebuchets were almost in no particular order, and they let out a mournful roar. Voice.The long arm swung out, and dozens of stone bullets weighing more than ten kilograms were thrown into the air. Thousands of red-hot stone bullets spun in the air, roaring and smashing towards the army camp.

Thousands of red-hot stone bombs are very obvious in the dark night.The flying stone bullets, like shooting stars, flew towards the Tang army's camp with a fiery tail flame.These tens of thousands of red-hot stone bombs are like meteors.

All the soldiers of the Tang army were stunned. All the soldiers of the Tang army, including Li Shimin, had never seen such a scene before.Some soldiers turned their heads and ran away in fright, while others were so frightened that they collapsed on the ground on the spot.

It’s just that it’s too late to say so fast, this wave of thousands of red-hot stone bombs finally fell towards the Tang army’s camp.Although one-third of the stone bullets deviated from the direction and landed on the ground before flying to the Tang army's camp, these red-hot stone bullets made a loud "bang" as soon as they fell on the ground.

I don't know how Wang Shichong came up with such a vile and smoking idea. When a red-hot stone encounters water vapor, it will expand rapidly and explode instantly.A stone bomb weighing more than ten kilograms immediately turned into thousands of fragments, bursting out dazzling sparks.Each of these red-hot stone bomb fragments is a fire seed, and when it touches a combustible substance, it immediately burns into a raging flame.

A stone bomb landed on a juju horse, and the wooden ju horse collided with the stone bomb and exploded with a "boom". The hard fragments of the stone bomb splashed and immediately set the ju horse, which was about three feet long, on fire.

A stone bomb happened to fall on the arrow tower of the Tang army camp. The arrow tower as high as three feet, "Boom! " exploded, and dozens of bows and arrows of the Tang army on the arrow tower were shrouded in fire and rain. The fragments of the stone bombs were not very powerful, at least far worse than the fragments of artillery shells. Because each piece is like a branding iron, it burns wherever it touches. More than a dozen Tang Army archers were beaten to bloody flesh by the fragments of the stone bullets, which is horrible.

"Get out, get out!" Li Shimin looked at this scene and let out a hysterical roar.

In an instant, Li Shimin's roar was drowned out by the explosion of the stone bomb falling to the ground.

Nearly one-third of the stone bullets finally hit the camp wall of the Tang army's camp. The originally solid camp wall was instantly covered with cracks, and within thirty steps of the camp wall, it formed a rain of fire.

Thousands of red-hot stone bullets fell into the Tang army camp, and the whole camp was shocked like a strong man who had been punched hard. Countless Tang army soldiers were shrouded in the rain of fire, one after another. There was a lot of screams.The soldiers of the Tang army in the fire rain were immediately burned to pieces by the red stone fragments, and howled again and again!
Just one wave of tens of thousands of stone bombs caused hundreds of casualties to the soldiers of the Tang army in the camp.Although this kind of stone bomb fragments is difficult to cause fatal casualties, this kind of burn is not easy to heal, and it is extremely painful, which has a great blow to the morale of Tang soldiers.

Looking at the generals and soldiers of the Tang army in the camp who were rolling on the ground due to pain, Li Shimin was so angry that his eyes were tearing apart. His hand slammed on the hardwood hand, which immediately smashed his flesh and blood. dripping.

"What a vicious mind!" Cheng Zhijie roared with a ferocious face: "The old thief Wang Shichong has such a vicious mind. This is forcing us to go out to fight with them!"

Qin Qiong clasped her fists and said, "His Royal Highness Qin, how about I take the sons out of the camp and kill their vigor!"

"No!" Li Shimin clearly knew that being passively beaten would have a great impact on the morale of the soldiers, but he also understood that Wang Shichong must have left behind outside the camp at this time, and he hoped that they would go out of the camp to attack these stone throwers at all costs. machine.

Li Shimin said coldly: "Old man Wang Shichong still has a backup, maybe their ambush is watching outside the camp. Once we leave the camp, we will definitely be ambushed by them. We can't take advantage of it." , but exactly what Wang Shichong wanted!"

"Ah!" Cheng Zhijie said angrily, "This battle is too humiliating!"

Li Shimin said loudly: "Order the bed crossbowmen to prepare and shoot their catapults!"

The bed crossbow has a very long range. In fact, it is fully capable of shooting Zheng Jun's trebuchets and pulling people.It’s just that the loading speed of the bed crossbow is slow, the accuracy rate is too poor, and it is inconvenient to move. Once the launch position of the bed crossbow is exposed, it means that the bed crossbow will definitely be hit by Zheng Jun’s long-range weapons. These bed crossbows are Li Shimin’s last pressure box. Mobile phones, this is not the best time to expose them.

In fact, Tang Jun was quite lucky.First of all, the weight of these stone bullets is too small to smash down the camp wall of the Tang Army's camp. Moreover, the accuracy of the trebuchet is too poor. Outside the Tang army's camp is to fall inside the Tang army's camp.

Moreover, Li Shimin reminded that these soldiers dispersed in time.Although these meteor-like stone bullets look very powerful, in fact, the power of these stone bullets is far inferior to real shells.The most important thing is that the camp of the Tang Army soldiers was set up outside the city, not inside the city. In the open area, there were not many combustible materials in the camp.

However, the power of the red-hot stone bombs is still quite powerful, as long as they are hit, they will basically sweep away a large area.

However, Wang Shichong, who was watching the formation behind Zheng Jun, saw the power of the red-hot stone bullets. He was overjoyed, clapped his hands and said with a smile: "I will pass on my order and continue to shoot stone bullets. Let's have extra meals tonight. All soldiers participating in the battle will be rewarded." One turn of military merit."

Seeing that victory was in sight, the morale of Zheng Jun's soldiers, which had been sluggish, gradually rose.Especially for Tian Zan and Yang Qing's episodes, these people have never seen the strength of the Tang army officers and soldiers. Seeing the Tang army officers and soldiers being bombarded by the catapults and running away in a panic, they feel that the Tang army officers and soldiers are nothing special.

Countless Zheng Jun soldiers yelled again and again, chanted the chant and worked hard together, grabbed the arm of the catapult neatly, and smashed the red-hot stone bullets at the Tang Army camp one by one like free ones.

Countless red-hot stone bullets were flying in the air, and the stone bullets made a soaring sound. This palpitating sound made the soldiers of the Tang army tremble like sifting chaff.

The red-hot stone bombs reflected the entire night sky red, as if the air was burning. The Tang army camp was like boiling water, and wounded soldiers were wailing in pain everywhere.

The red-hot stone bullets fell one by one, and the red-hot stone bullets made thunderous bangs from time to time, and the sound of explosions from time to time became the only swan song on the battlefield.

Looking at the battlefield, one after another red-hot stone bombs crossed the camp wall and exploded in the camp. The tents near the camp wall were ignited, and the fire burned rapidly. The soldiers in the camp also ran for their lives in panic...

The red-hot stone bombs were constantly projected by Zheng Jun's trebuchets, and the fragments of the exploded stone bombs radiated up to a radius of one foot, leaving Tang soldiers nowhere to hide, causing heavy casualties. In order to completely eliminate the threat of the enemy's trebuchet on the head.

It was also Li Shimin's only choice at the moment, otherwise, the thousand or so trebuchets would have wiped out the morale of the Cijian Tang army's camp, and would have wiped out the last trace of fighting spirit in the hearts of the Tang army's soldiers.

Time slowly slipped to the second watch, and instead of retreating with the night, the offensive of Zheng Jun's generals intensified.The violent crowd kept coming.Climbing up the ladder under the firelight, even if the Tang army at the top of the city kept pushing down the ladder, even if the soldiers who rushed to the top of the city were under the sword, the offensive of the attacking side would be weakened a little.

Suddenly, Li Shimin missed Chen Yinglai very much. If Chen Ying was here, most of the burden on his shoulders would be relieved.

PS: Thank you very much for Wu Xiangruthless's reward, there will be more later, and I will add more for Dharma Protector Wu Xiangruthless.

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